Overview
A decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of democratization and marketization in East Central Europe, a handful of countries introduced territorial and administrative reforms and created regional "self-governments" autonomous subnational-level assemblies elected by universal suffrage. This comparative study of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary explores the reasons for these reforms and their consequences for post-communist democracies. In the context of the long-standing development of regions in Western Europe, Jennifer A. Yoder argues that a new approach is needed to explain recent regional reforms--and their wide variablity--in post-communist Europe. Her study offers a nuanced and authoritative account of a category of reforms that gets to the heart of democratization after communism: how to distribute authority within a new system.
- | Author: Jennifer A. Yoder
- | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2013
- | Number of Pages: 252 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1442215984
- | ISBN-13: 9781442215986
